President Donald Trump said on Sept. 19 that he will form an Artificial Intelligence Force.
“I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS, in my First Term,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.
The president suggested the AI Force will help boost the industry’s growth.
“We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry,” he said. “Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows! However, we will also be looking for BAD, and we can do that, very easily, with our already existing Criminal and Civil Justice System.”
The president plans to hire an AI “Czar” to lead the force, suggesting that “Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!”
In a separate post on Saturday, Trump said many people do not think the term “artificial intelligence” is an accurate way to describe the technology.
“A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI),” Trump wrote.
“This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever-growing ‘Revolution?’”
Trump’s latest endorsement of the technology comes after Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI researcher who resigned from Anthropic, suggested on Sept. 8 that people building AI think that it “could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
OpenAI, which has acknowledged that its rogue AI agents recently breached the open-source AI community Hugging Face, separately warned that if proper safeguards were not installed, AI agents are “able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.”
Trump had previously dismissed suggestions to slow AI development, citing national security concerns.
“We’re leading China in AI,” he said while speaking with reporters at his golf course in Ireland on Sept. 13. “We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.
The president’s announcement comes amid calls from some lawmakers to further regulate the technology and local protests against the construction of new data centers.
This is a developing story that will be updated.
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